Gert Strydom Poems

'Without faith it is impossible to
please God, for whoever comes to
Him must believe that He exists
and that he rewards those who
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In the north-eastern Ukrainian counter-offence
in the Luhansk oblast Ukraine is pushing deep,
to five key cities the attacks sweep
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Honour and integrity do require
being true to principles and reality,
even if in life we face abnormality,
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In February a hundred thousand Russian lives ago
families in Russia was unbroken,
the decimation of Ukrainians unspoken,
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On Christmas day 1931

(in answer to I. D. du Plessis)
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It's Christmas in the last part of the year
with a terrible war raging on the earth,
as both sides do celebrate Christ's birth
where the very next year is now near.
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At Bahkmut Wagner has artillery superiority
with nine howitzers to every one of Ukraine,
to canon-fodder they sent their prisoner military,
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'my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass
from me. Yet not what I want but what You want.' Matthew 26: 39

'My Father, if this cup cannot go away unless I
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'You belong to your father the devil, and want to
carry out desires of your father. He was a murderer
from the beginning and has never stood for truth,
since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a
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Inside Bahkmut at a much closer glance
there are tank-barriers at each cross-road,
in a decimated landscape where humans abode,
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